ASADABAD (PAN’s northwestern tribal region of Bajaur, officials said. Maulvi Shafiullah Shafi and his friend were ordered down the vehicle they was travelling in between Asmar and Ghazniabad districts, lawmaker Maulvi Shahzada Shahid told Pajhwok Afghan News. Also a member…
ASADABAD (PAN): A 12-member insurgents group has joined the peace process in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. Led by Najibullah, the group had been operating in Watapur district over the past years, Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told…
ASADABAD/LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 330 metres long bridge on the Kunar River was inaugurated in Sawakai district of the eastern province on Sunday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, inaugurating the 10-metre wide bridge, said the USAID-funded project accounted for $4.5 million (222…
ASADABAD (PAN): Newly-constructed buildings for two schools were inaugurated in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, an official said. Constructed by the Ministry of Education, the structures cost $ 116000 (5713000 afs), said Education Director Syed Jamal-ud-Din Hosni. One of buildings…
ASADABAD (PAN): Prisoners at the central jail in eastern Kunar province on Sunday accused the jail officials of not properly following their cases and demanding money in this regard, an accusation rejected by the officials concerned. The inmates also said…
ASADABAD (PAN): Director of provincial council in eastern Kunar province has said officials of the provincial government administration were working better, but the governor house was not cooperating with them. The province has total nine seats, including three allocated for…
ASADABAD (PAN): Residents of a remote valley in eastern Kunar province on Monday protested against night-time searches of their homes by international troops and Afghan commandos. In front of the provincial council office in Asadabad, a large number of residents…
KABUL (MoPH) has been able to utilise 60 percent of its annual development budget during the ongoing fiscal year, emerging as an uplift spending leader, an official said on Monday. SO far 30 percent of the 74 billion afghanis budget…
ASADABAD (PAN): Afghan forces on Friday claimed retaking several areas from insurgents during an ongoing offensive in eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces. Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops are conducting "Operation Storm" in Narai district of Kunar and…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two teenage cousins were killed and their 16 others family members wounded after a rocket hit a house in the Matongi district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. The insurgents fired the rocket targeting a…
ASADABAD (PAN in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Friday. The air strikes took place in Narai and Asmar district, where the insurgents planned to attack foreign military bases, a statement from the NATO-led force said. It gave no further…
BAMYAN: Iranian-made explosives and ammunitions have been seized in the Kahmard district of central Bamyan province, officials claimed on Wednesday. The seizure came in Du Aab and Ashpushta areas, police crime branch officer, Chaman Ali, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The…
ISLAMABAD: Four people, including a member of an anti-insurgent militia, were killed in a bomb blast the Lower Dir district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, a police official said. Pro-government militia member Azizur Rehman, his son and two…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN projects, benefiting more than 15,000 families, were completed in northern Kunduz province, officials said on Monday. The reconstruction schemes included the pavement of a 43-kilomtre road, 192 small bridges, 181 wells and 12 tailoring and carpet-weaving courses.…
ASADABAD (PAN, officials said on Saturday. The delegation included senior Afghan officials and International Security Assistance Force commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen. Defence Minister Gen. Abdur Rahim Wardak, Interior Minister Bismillah Khan Muhammadi, National Directorate of Intelligence (NDS Defence…
ASADABAD (PAN): Fourteen people, including 13 from a family, were injured in a rocket strike in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, officials said on Friday. The rocket hit a house during a rebel assault on a security post…
ASADABAD (PAN Fazlullah, was hiding in Kunar. Pakistani Army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas on Monday said that Afghan and US-led forces had failed to hunt down Fazlullah responsible for a spate of cross-border raids despite repeated requests from Islamabad.…
ASADABAD (PAN and Afghan troops over the past ten days in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Monday. Starting October 7, the operations were carried out in Narai, Ghaziabad and Asmar districts, where the militants had established check posts, the…
ASADABAD (PAN): Twenty-seven people have been killed and 42 others wounded in recent Pakistani incursions into eastern Kunar province, officials claimed on Monday. A day earlier, President Hamid Karzai said media reports about Pakistani shelling of Afghan areas were exaggerated.…
ASADABAD (PAN's northwestern tribal region of Bajaur, an official said on Friday. Two people were killed in Sandari, two in Wardesh and as many in Nanglam as a result of the rain-induced floods, the Manogai district chief, Haji Noorullah, told…
ASADBAD (PAN): Two would-be suicide bombers were killed and two of their accomplices captured by police in eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Saturday. Last week, police received intelligence reports that five suicide bombers had entered the province, bordering…
ASADABAD (PAN): A two-day cricket coaching course, involving 50 boys, concluded in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. Sponsored by the Afghan Connection and MCC, the cricket camp was arranged by the Afghan Youth…
ASADABAD (PAN) helicopter crashed in the eastern province of Kunar on Monday, officials and the alliance said. As coalition rescue forces approached the crash site, they came under enemy fire, ISAF said in a statement. “Coalition forces returned fire, with…
ASADABAD (PAN-led forces in the Asmar district of eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Tuesday. The air raid was carried out on Tuesday afternoon in the Sewr area, Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The airstrike came after…
